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El Castillo

by Honyock

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1.
Patron 04:17
I couldn’t tell you from a bar of soap But you looked like something that had died And been warmed up Parts of you are good enough to use Maybe they should part you out like an old machine Why don’t we share a meal Instead of sharing needles I know a little place That we will never get to Unless you raise them high Your little white Your little white flags Suburban self-demolisher’s suicide pact She can’t get close to death unless she catches it in the act When I was lying on my side in the hospital And the walls were closing in The furthest from my mind was the thrill Your kindness is as unlimited as your self hatred If I thought it’d make a difference I’d become A patron of your heart But your coffers must be filled with your disciples I’m not the only beast of burden Eager for you weight So raise them high Your little red Your little red hands If you were a snake you would have bit me Cause you were right there I was dazzled by the sent of your hair What can be conveyed in a moments stare That can cause me such nightmare If I could see you anywhere but dreams I would shake you of your legacy Of bright stars that fell before their time So raise Raise them high Your little white Your little white flags White flags Red hands Red hands Raise them high
2.
Got It Wrong 03:44
Ain't no white noise machine Can clear your worried mind No Panacea will you find Pseudo-mystic crystals Won't rid you of the pain No cosmic misalignment is to blame Got it wrong Got it wrong Oh how I hope I got it wrong "Our soul remains," you say "After we're gone" But I'll live assuming I ain't got it wrong Ignorance is willful In the information age Dressing up opinions as facts Is all the rage When will caring be cool again? I think it's time I called your bluff Kaylee told me, "Don't you take no guff." Got it wrong Got it wrong Oh how I hope I got it wrong "It's all the same," you say "Just dance and song" But I'll live assuming I ain't got it wrong
3.
Heather 04:24
I could be better But I’m feeling fine Last time I saw Heather I just didn’t have the time Salt shaker in her garden With a pocket knife beside Last time I saw Heather The fruit it wasn’t ripe From time to time I’ll ask about her What was more important than our fate From time to time I’ll get an answer Darling don’t you know she's fled the state Got a ticket to Virginia In the pocket of my bag When I get on that train man I’m gonna wish I never had I’m looking for my future In a calendar of squares But last time I saw Heather She wasn’t there If the Ghost of God delivered her On an angel with silver wings If she could meet me at the station Like something ‘blazoned on a silver screen I know that I would be happy Now that the light of hindsight has shined Aw, but last time I saw Heather She wasn’t on my mind Her mem’ry often pays me a visit Yeah, I wonder what she would say about that fact She’d say “The truest promises are the ones that never come to pass”
4.
Too many movers and shakers There's gonna be an earthquake Grow a second right hand Give yourself a handshake In the parlance of the dying I wrote the book of the dead Sometimes the only thing a caveman understands Is a club to the head Aunt Diluvian Aunt Diluvian Aunt Diluvian Aunt Diluvian The tortured posture of the thinking man The straight spine of brevity Not everyone is weighed upon By intellectual gravity My own coded message A living language in it's twilight years The meaning is lost to me And I'll never get it back I fear Aunt Diluvian Aunt Diluvian Aunt Diluvian Aunt Diluvian Self-imposed exile Ashamed to show my face again From an idol to an effigy The line is very thin Jesus asked for whiskey He said, "But not from the well." Your reputation precedes you The stories your disciples tell Aunt Diluvian Aunt Diluvian Aunt Diluvian Aunt Diluvian Doctor said, "Cut the finger." Jeweler said, "Cut the ring." Mama said, "Don't get married."
5.
I'll never let you in again You've got the nerve to say, "Leave well enough alone" We talked a lot while we were both away "Let's try again when we get home, I know I was wrong." I heard the same thing once before Now twice I've opened up the door I'll never let you in again I filled a hole In your homesick heart When we returned it seems I played my part Why'd you let me hold you Just to break away? How did so much change In the course of your stay?
6.
Call me Romeo Casanova Then wipe the sweat from your thigh I’m not dead yet but when I die My skull will have roses for eyes But I’m not dead, babe I’m not dead I’m not dead baby No But when I drive The road will be mine Zipper in, zipper out Zipper in, zipper out Zip and shout Don’t cry over spilt supernova When you get the coal dust in your eye Move on to North Dakota Carry on with some other guy It was hot at the airport To think it was cold in the sky Down on the basketball court Looking up I got sweat in my eye And you were looking like a killer whale I was feeling quite like a seal How can you come and take me to jail When here there is nothing to steal It was all fine Till the California cop came in Till the California cop California cop came in Till the California cop California cop came in It was all fine Till the California cop came in It was all jazz Until they sent me to Alcatraz It was all fine Till the California cop California cop came in Till the California cop California cop came in Till the California cop California cop came in Till the California cop California cop came in
7.
As she sits down Puts her finger on the dog-eared pages Of middle-english verse and prose The dog-ears know Where she left off in her favorite poem People don’t love like they did back then Before the invention of Juliette When love wasn’t just an epithet In Shakespeare's head Maybe we belong to a different time When couples yearned and the couplets rhymed I think we have something that they had But they say it so much better than we can Till turf her tower Her flower Will wilt on the pages Of far gone ages If I can hold the pedals in my hand Do you think she’d understand Love in a modern language? It’s hard for her to think that her favorite stories Haven’t been reprinted since the 1940’s What will it take to be her knight in shining armor Sir Lancelot from Camelot Put the book down and we’ll go to bed With images of Galahad in your head Unlike the books that would die on your desk My love for you goes on and on and on Love ain’t something you can dress up for a photograph It’s constantly falling in and out of style It’s standing there with its arms akimbo Heaven and hell And often limbo Oh yeah
8.
Man in Need 05:02
I'm having trouble feeling good about anything Time slips from my hands Like an ill-fitting wedding ring Stretched so thin that you could see right through my skin Starting at the finish 'Cause I don't know where to begin Can't you help a man in need? Won't you spare a life to lead? Tell me it gets better and I'll try real hard, To believe Why should I contribute to society? I can't think of much That society has done for me If you're a dreamer then you best be ready For a fight People tend to rain on a flame If it burns too bright Can't you help a man in need? Won't you spare a life to lead? Tell me it gets better and I'll try real hard, To believe
9.
Into My Arms 04:41
I've taken a big risk Letting you know how I feel I've made memories with you They will haunt me if you go Please find the time Won't you find your way? Into my arms We're incomplete But the holes in our hearts leave room to grow There's nothing left to say Just heavy words to weigh us down Please find the time Won't you find your way? Into my arms
10.
I hope that you’re in love I mean really in love And though your mind wanders It always finds a home Cause I think that’s what love is Finding where you belong Without ignoring other places Sometimes I fantasize of being alone And I wish that God existed And love was a hand That would catch me when I fell That I needed nothing else And when you looked at the stars You’d see Him looking back And I hope when you feel like crying That instead you laugh I hope you laugh at all the funny things around you And some of the things that aint I hope you laugh And when you get done laughing Wipe the tears off your face Ooo, ooo, ooo I hope that you’re happy I mean actually happy That you get pleasure from the truth Not what you wished the truth was That you’ve not found a routine And you what pain means And children if you have them Are separate human beings And I hope that you were right I mean absolutely right When you said I had miscalculated When I wanted to take my life And though there’s peaks and valleys I’ll rise forever ever higher And I hope that when I die It was not a trial by fire That an end is an end Not snakes coiling around a pyre That I won’t be afraid of the nothing interchanging Fakers faking Lovers feigning love Forever afraid of getting higher Ooo, ooo, ooo

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released July 27, 2018

Produced, Recorded, and mixed by David Vandervelde and Honyock at New Monkey Studios, Frank Lenz' Studio, The Record Dungeon and elsewhere.

Honyock is Tyler Wolter, Spencer Hoffman, Mason Hoffman and Christian "Sunshine" Meinke

with special guests:

Zach Hake - keys on tracks 8 and 9
Geoffrey C. Knecht - horns on tracks 3 and 5
Malcolm King - strings on tracks 7 and 9
Frank Lenz - extra percussion on tracks 1, 3, 7, 10
David Vandervelde - extra percussion on track 4, slide on track 10
Maddy Smith joins us on the acoustic guitar for track 3

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